Show Boot System; Purpose; Commands - Enterasys Matrix DFE-Gold Series Configuration Manual

Reviewing and Selecting a Boot Firmware Image
9. Set the terminal baud rate back to 9600 and press ENTER.
10. Type setboot filename to set the device to boot to the new firmware image. In this example, the
downloaded image file is named "myimage." The following message displays:
[System Image Loader]: setboot myimage
Image boot file set to myimage
[System Image Loader]:
11. Type boot to reboot the device. The following message indicates the downloaded image
booted successfully:
[System Image Loader]: boot
/flash0/
Loading myimage...

Purpose

To display and set the image file the device loads at startup.

Commands

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show boot system

set boot system
show boot system
Use this command to display the firmware image the system will load at the next system reset.
Syntax
show boot system
Parameters
None.
Defaults
None.
Mode
Switch command, Read‐Only.
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- Volume is OK
Note: If you reboot without specifying the image to boot with setboot as described above, the
device will attempt to load whatever image is currently stored in the bootstring via the set boot
system command ("set boot
set, it will search through available images and attempt to boot the newest one. It will then set the
bootstring to whatever image file name was successfully loaded.
DONE.
system" on page 2-75). If the device cannot find the image, or it is not
show boot system
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